Title: Assistant Planner / Planning Engineer
Location: Slough
Salary: £50-60,000 + car allowance + package
An exciting opportunity has arisen for an ambitious Assistant Planner or Planning Engineer with a strong civil engineering background to join a leading main contractor delivering a major long-term infrastructure framework based in Slough.
This role offers the chance to play a key part in supporting and overseeing planning across a high volume of road and highways maintenance projects, contributing to the successful delivery of essential infrastructure works within a fast-paced operational environment. Working on a significant framework, you will gain invaluable experience across a diverse portfolio of highways schemes while developing your career within a respected contractor known for delivering major civil engineering projects.
Key Responsibilities
- Support the planning and programme management of multiple road, highways, and maintenance projects across a major framework
- Develop, update, and maintain detailed project programmes using Primavera P6
- Assist in coordinating multiple workstreams, ensuring effective sequencing and alignment across concurrent schemes
- Support the management of programme performance, progress tracking, and reporting across framework activities
- Work closely with operational, commercial, and project delivery teams to ensure accurate planning and scheduling
- Monitor project milestones, identify programme risks, delays, and opportunities, and support mitigation strategies
- Assist with short-term and long-term planning to ensure efficient resource utilisation and project delivery
- Apply NEC contract knowledge to support programme compliance, change management, and contractual obligations
- Produce progress reports, look-ahead programmes, and planning documentation for internal and client stakeholders
Candidate Requirements
- Previous experience in an Assistant Planner, Planning Engineer, or similar planning role within civil engineering or infrastructure
- Strong civil engineering background, ideally within roads, highways, maintenance, or infrastructure projects
- Proficiency in Primavera P6 is essential
- Solid working knowledge of NEC contracts and their application within project controls
- Experience supporting multiple project workstreams in a fast-paced delivery environment
Desirable
- Experience within highways maintenance or local authority frameworks
- Exposure to large-scale infrastructure or framework environments
- Relevant construction or engineering qualification
What’s on Offer
- £50-60,000 basis salary
- Pension, Healthcare, Life Assurance, Private Medical
- 28 days annual leave plus banks holidays
- Opportunity to join a leading main contractor on a major long-term framework
- Exposure to a high-profile portfolio of highways and road maintenance schemes
- Excellent career development and progression opportunities
- Valuable experience within major infrastructure and framework delivery
- Long-term project stability within a critical infrastructure environment
If you are looking for a new career challenge in planning and you would like to be considered for the above opportunity then please apply by sending your CV to matt.lilburn@goldgroup.co.uk or call Matt Lilburn on 01342 330 533 for further information quoting reference 73765.
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